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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adhemar used to be a doctor. The son of a moderately well-to-do coffee planter, he romped with gold-medal honors-through the University of Brazil, where he studied medicine and played water polo. After two years at the Bayer Laboratory in Berlin, Germany, and at Johns Hopkins Medical School, he hung out his shingle in São Paulo. But the practice of medicine was slow and dull. He turned to politics and became a strong-voiced deputy in the state legislature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Our Adhemar | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Paepcke bought one of the old houses, soon returned to buy or lease most of the other buildings. He thought of rebuilding the whole town. But the more he looked at the buildings, the more their quaint, ghostly flavor got him. Result: when he hired Designer Herbert Bayer as architect, Mr. Paepcke (who is the principal backer of Chicago's arty Institute of Design) gave orders that Aspen's once-Gay Nineties atmosphere was to be preserved to the last piece of gingerbread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghost on Skis | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...Bayer, who bought an Aspen house himself and promptly settled in it, followed orders. In refurbishing the Jerome Hotel, he kept the water-powered elevator, run by ropes pulled by the passengers. While blonde & beautiful Mrs. Paepcke hunted Victorian furniture in Chicago, dormitories, 20 guest houses and a sundeck were built, the ski slopes were cleared, a movie house, roller rink and art gallery were constructed. Paepcke imported a chef from Switzerland, a wine expert from Chicago. Ski instructors, plumbers and mechanics trooped in. Overnight, the moribund little town became the liveliest spot in Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghost on Skis | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...February 1943, when Radovich was a captain in the Air Forces, he was sent to Mitchel Field to organize a unit for the China-Burma-India air war. There he became acquainted with two brothers, Samuel and Elias Bayer and their nephew Jerome Usdan, thread manufacturers of New York. Samuel Bayer's son Martin, 22, and Usdan's brother Morris, 21, were both privates at Mitchel Field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - The Major and God | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

Sent home, the remorseful Radovich sold his war bonds and gave the money to the Army. Last week he was under detention at Mitchel Field. Martin Bayer was still in the U.S. in spite of everything. Cousin Morris was overseas. Jerome Usdan was held in $5,000 bail, charged with conspiracy to corrupt an Army officer, FBI agents were looking for Samuel and Elias Bayer, wanted on the same charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - The Major and God | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

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